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Show Big Battle Looms In Mexico, P : i REBEL TROOPS TO FIGHT WITH GENJPLES Struggle for Puebla at Hand With First Clash Already Reported RUMOR OF CARRANZA FLEEING NOT PROVEN Revolutionists Declare They Do Not Want to Receive Villa's Aid WASHINGTON, May 7. General Murgula has been sent into the slate of Puebla to attack tho forces of Gon-eral Gon-eral Pablo Gonzales and an engagement engage-ment already has occurred between the vanguard of the .Carranzista troops and the rebels at Otumba, between Mexico City ;ind the city of Pubeia. Authoriatlve advices reaching Washington Wash-ington today said. General -Gbnzales declared de-clared that, he was not in league with the Obregonistas and t would resist thorn by fbrce of arms." Thuyas. rjvrJ -gadded' as-;cojiiph'oatinfe''Tlfe jiiiUbn' in Mexico. Gonzales has declared martial mar-tial law In Puebla City, according to thoso advices and has exacted a loan of 200,000 pesos from the population. Passenger traffic between Mexico : City and Guadalajara has heen suspended. sus-pended. A passenger train on this lino was attacked by rebels at Pen-joma Pen-joma on May 5 and robbed of a con- i siderable sum of government funds In-i tended to be used in paying the sol-i diers at Guadalajara, where at last advices, ad-vices, General Dieguez had S.000 men in his command. I Increased Activity. Increased rebel activity is reported j in tho vicinity of Vera Cruz where1 President Carraira's son-in-law. General Gen-eral Candldo Agullar, is in command of the federal troops. The state department today had no confirmation of private message received re-ceived here after last midnight from Mexico City via Laredo that Carranza had left the Mexican capital for Vera. Cruz. Official advice from the American embassy at Mexico City said E. F. Greenlaw, the American, and his son who were 'killed last Saturday near Mexico City were robbed at the same time of a part of the company payroll, amounting to 4,500 pesos, Greenlaw was G3 years old and his son 3-. Mrs. Greenlaw and a minor child aro in Mexico City. Carranza- Manifesto. Rebel agents declared Carrenza's manifesto in which he insisted he would not surrender the presidency was not inconsistent with their belief that he would abandon the capital, pointing out that he might cling to the titlo of presidency from an office In Vera Cruz or from any convenient rofuge. A message to rebel headquarters hero saying the president of the municipality muni-cipality of Mexico City was organizing a civilian guard for the protection of the city "in the event of its evacuation" was regarded by the revolutionary agents as significant and had prepared them. for the announcement that Carranza Car-ranza had quit the capital. Do Not Want AMIla. EL PASO, Tex.. May 7. Mexican revolutionary agents here made publfc today some of the incidents of parleys between envoys of Francisco Villa, tho bandit, and rebel leaders. j Villa, they said, offered to join the I revolution with what forces he could muster, but the offer was refused. He was reported to have asked that after the revolution he be allowed to go to Sonora or another western state to set- ' tie down. I Fear Complications. Fear of complications with the United Stales government led to refusing re-fusing Villa's aid, it was said, and revolutionary revo-lutionary leaders wero frank in saying they believed Villa a menace to any Mexican government. However, it became be-came known that ncgatiations aro under un-der way looking for tho elimination of. Villa from Mexican politics and affairs af-fairs by offering him a ranch In northern north-ern Mexico with the provision ho does not leavo certain well-defined limits. Some Mexican observers said the present revolution would eliminate Villa because of the strength it has gained and pointed to tho smallness of a command ho has been able to muster during tho past 11 months since his failure to capture Jaurez in Juno 1919, with Gen. Follpo Angeles. n'n |